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James Dutton argues that Proust's lone published text, la recherche du temps perdu (191327), stages a uniquely productive encounter between philosophy and literature. In its genre-defying originality, it anticipates some of the most important concepts and strategies of poststructuralist French thought exemplified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze.

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Dutton performs an acrobatic movement between Proust, Derrida and Deleuze, foregrounding In Search of Lost Time as a 'textual becoming' and running with the 'fractal force' of all three works. Readers are invited to join Derrida and Deleuze as sprouting roots in the rhizomatic unfurling of Proust's book. We should accept. --Patrick ffrench, King's College London This engaging book, which might be playfully retitled 'Proust between Two Philosophers', brings critical attention back to the philosophical aspect of À la recherche du temps perdu, part of a larger trend in Proust studies that has, at least partially, moved us away from once-dominant biographical, historical, and sociological approaches. --Patrick Bray, UCL ""French Studies, Vol. XX, No. XX"" While the struggle between the literary and the philosophical remains, every encounter is a new and engaging event, and Proust's text is a fitting terrain on which to see it play out. Dutton's writing stages this encounter well, and this book will be valuable to anybody wishing to explore the nature of literature as it is read-- that is, necessarily incomplete. --Bryan Counter, Western New England University ""Symploke, Vol. 31, No. 1-2""

"Dutton performs an acrobatic movement between Proust, Derrida and Deleuze, foregrounding In Search of Lost Time as a 'textual becoming' and running with the 'fractal force' of all three works. Readers are invited to join Derrida and Deleuze as sprouting roots in the rhizomatic unfurling of Proust's book. We should accept. --Patrick ffrench, King's College London This engaging book, which might be playfully retitled 'Proust between Two Philosophers', brings critical attention back to the philosophical aspect of � la recherche du temps perdu, part of a larger trend in Proust studies that has, at least partially, moved us away from once-dominant biographical, historical, and sociological approaches. --Patrick Bray, UCL ""French Studies, Vol. XX, No. XX"" While the struggle between the literary and the philosophical remains, every encounter is a new and engaging event, and Proust's text is a fitting terrain on which to see it play out. Dutton's writing stages this encounter well, and this book will be valuable to anybody wishing to explore the nature of literature as it is read-- that is, necessarily incomplete. --Bryan Counter, Western New England University ""Symploke, Vol. 31, No. 1-2"""

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James Dutton, James Dutton is a casual lecturer and tutor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, The University of New South Wales, Sydney.

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